Once again I apologize for the grammar errors that will be there, and the spelling errors, or just forgetting to write something, like I noticed I have done a few times.

I went back and changed a few things on chapter 3, but they aren't too noticeable. So I don't think you have to go back and read it, unless you want to.

*I do not own Percy Jackson and The Olympians*

Chapter Four:

Percy said good bye to Triton and Amphitrite, and nervously boarded the plane. He felt really uneasy about being so high in the sky, and was happy that his dad was going with him. He thought that Poseidon was going to let him travel alone, but he insisted on accompanying him. He was sad that Percy was leaving, so he wanted to stay with him as long as he could. Not that Percy minded, he was glad he wasn't alone for the scary flight home, and he liked spending time with his dad.

Percy sat back rigidly in his seat and began petting Ms. O'Leary, who was soundly asleep in his small carryon bag. Percy looked at her and smiled; he was glad she was so tiny, because he didn't want her to travel all alone in the lower compartment. He still won't admit it to Triton, but he really loves the cute little dog. It's mischievous, she eats Tritons shoes and socks, and she even scored him a few numbers from girls who stopped and told him how cute she was.

He was so nervous that without noticing, he began petting her really roughly. She would wince every time his hand ran over her head, until she growled at him and he stopped. "Sorry girl." Percy apologized. Poseidon looked at his son and noticed how nervous he was.

"Percy relax, it'll be fine. Go to sleep and before you know it, you'll be back in New York."

Percy nodded and took his father's advice, he napped for the remainder of the plane ride, and when he woke up he was in New York. It was still pretty early, so they decided to go get some breakfast before dropping him of with his mom.

"Percy, your car will be here in two days. Poseidon said. "And I expect you to drive responsibly. I'm also hoping that now that you aren't around Triton so much, you'll act more mature."

"Yes dad." Percy said not really paying attention. He was more focused on a pretty blond with long hair, shapely leg, small waist, and a curvy body.

"Percy! Pay attention when I talk to you." Poseidon scowled at his son.

"I am paying attention dad. You said something about being mature and other stuff."

"That was what I said earlier, I was telling you that I went ahead and got the apartment for you." Poseidon said. Percy looked at his father, crossed his arms and rolled his eye, letting out a frustrated sigh.

"Yes, yes, I know you said you didn't want it. But I thought you might change your mind later." Poseidon then looked at where Percy's attention had been, and wished he hadn't. The blond was looking a Percy like he was lunch.

"Now that I think about it, that wasn't a good idea. A rich, good looking hormonal teenage guy with his own apartment. I don't even want to know what you are going with it." Poseidon said.

"Geez dad, thanks for the trust. And I'm not rich, you are."

"Percy what's mine is for you and your brother, so you are rich. And no I don't trust you. Do I need to remind you about the girls I caught you with, not to mention the ones I didn't catch you with." Poseidon said.

Percy remembered when his dad caught him in his room with a girl from school, and then gave him the talk. It was the most awkward and embarrassing ten minutes of his life.

"No dad, you don't need to remind me. And thanks for getting me the apartment."

Poseidon nodded at him and they went back to eating their breakfast. They ate quietly and that's how they liked it. They didn't need to have a big conversation to connect with each other, they just did. Percy now knows that Poseidon loves him, and he will always be a part of his life.

Percy looked up at the apartment that he shared with his mom, and a big smile appeared on his face. His mom didn't know he was coming today, and he was excited to surprise her.

"Alright Percy you behave yourself, I'll see in a month, and don't hesitate to call me if you need anything." Poseidon said.

Percy nodded at his father, than gave him a hug. "I will dad, and Thank you for everything."

They exchanged a final I love you and hugged, before Poseidon got in the sleek black Mercedes he rented, and rode off. Percy watched his dad go until he was out of sight, and then he ran inside anxious to see his mom.

Percy put Ms. O'Leary down and knocked on the door like he was the police. (Meaning that he knocked really loudly.) "I'm coming!" Sally yelled. Percy smiled and knocked even louder.

"I'll be right there!" She said beginning to get frustrated. She swung opened the door with the intent of yelling at the person knocking, until she saw it was Percy.

"Percy?" She asked. He still looked like himself; his eyes were still a beautiful unique sea green, his hair was as black and messy as ever, and he still had thick long eyelashes and cute dimples. Except now he had a good built with well-defined muscles and toned abs, and he was more handsome.

He nodded and she engulfed him in a huge hug. "Why didn't you tell me you were coming today?"

"I wanted to surprise you." He said sheepishly.

"I missed you so much sweetie." She said hugging him. She pulled away and looked at him again. "Look at you; you've gotten so big and handsome." She said pinching his cheek.

"Mom." Percy complained rubbing his cheek where she had just pinched it. His mom ignored him and pulled him inside, with Ms. O'Leary at his heels.

Once inside his mom pulled out his favorite blue chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk, than insisted that Percy tells her everything, he might have forgotten to mention in his phone calls and letters. Percy told his mom the PG rated version of everything he did in Florida. Then they spend the rest of the day at home hanging out, watching movies and catching up. Percy learned new things about his mom. She is now going to school because she wants to be a novelist, and that she is dating a new man, who by the sound of it was really nice. The only thing that sucked about her new boyfriend was that he works at Goode High School, and he was going to be his English teacher. "Luke is going to have a blast teasing me about that." He thought.

Nico lightly knocked on the door of Percy's apartment, he had promised Percy that he would keep an eye on his mom, and he has kept his promise. He comes and visits with her any time he gets a chance.

Nico heard Sally say "come in." So he opened the door and walked into the kitchen, where he could smell food cooking. "Good morning Nico." She greeted him happily. "Have you eaten breakfast yet?" She asked.

Nico shook his head and hungrily looked at the blue pancakes, beacon, and orange juice. "Well than sit down and have some." She said getting a plate for him. Nico loves Sally's cooking, and always has breakfast with her, or lunch. Since Percy left, Sally and Nico have spent a lot of time together, and she now cares for him as if he were her son. Nico sat down and immediately began to stuff his face.

"I have to get ready for work Nico, but make your-self at home okay." Sally said.

Nico simply nodded at her unable to speak form all the food he had in his mouth. Sally smiled than left to her bedroom.

"Hello Nico." Percy said and sat next to him.

"Percy!" Nico said happily. Percy stood up to greet his friend, and Nico tackled him in a huge hug. Percy returned the hug and they were embracing each other tightly, they noticed what they were doing and separated quickly, smoothing out their clothes and clearing their throats.

"I mean, what's up man. Long time no see." Nico said trying to act cool again.

"I'm good, happy to be back." Percy said smiling and noticing the changes in him. He was taller now, almost as tall as Percy, his hair was longer, and he had a good build, not as good as Percy's, but he was definitely no longer skinny and scrawny.

"I'm glad you're back to. When did you get here?" Nico asked.

"I arrived yesterday."

"And you didn't call me?" Nico said fainting to be hurt.

"I spent the day with my mom. I was going to call you guys today."

"Grover doesn't know you're back either?"

"No. But he's about to find out." Percy said then grabbed his arm and led him out the door.

Ms. O'Leary cried when she saw Percy leaving, and quickly went after him.

"What is that?" Nico asked pointing at her.

Percy looked at where Nico was pointing, and saw his cute little black poodle; he quickly picked her up, and held her protectively. "She's my dog." Percy said.

"Wow Percy, I never pictured you for the poodle owning type. Do you also have a cute purse you like to carry her in?" Nico teased.

"No need." Percy said ignoring his comment, and snuggled her closer to him under his arm. "Now if you're done laughing at my dog, can we leave please?" Percy said and walked away.

Nico chuckled. "God I missed him." He thought and went after him.

They shortly arrived at Grover's house, and he greeted Percy with a hug as big as the one Nico had given him. They talked about everything that has been going on with them, and spent the morning goofing around and acting like doofeses.

"I'm hungry." Grover said and paused the video game they were playing.

"Hey! I was winning." Nico complained.

"I'm kind of hungry to." Percy said.

Nico groaned then stood up stretching and yawning. "Fine you pigs, let's go get some lunch."

They decided to go to a pizza place nearby that the three of them really liked, when they arrived they found an empty booth and sat down making sure to hide Ms. O'Leary.

"What can I get for you guys?" The cute waitress asked batting her eyelashes at Percy.

Percy looked at her up and down then smiled, making the waitress blush. "We'll have an extra large pepperoni pizza, and three cokes please." He said sweetly.

"But I'm really hungry." Grover complained.

"Better make that two extra large pizzas." Percy said.

The waitress wrote down their order. "I'll bring your order out soon." She said and gave Percy one last longing glance.

"That waitress likes you." Grover said.

"Yeah I know." Percy said cockily.

"When did you become such a lady's man?" Nico asked.

Percy just looked at him and smiled, not bothering to answering his question. Even though he was what a lot of people called a man whore, he didn't like to brag about the girls he has been with.

He never mentioned it to Triton, but sometimes he felt kind of bad for treating girls the way he did. Sure he did it because he was bitter about the whole Annabeth thing, but he also did it because since Triton was such a player, everyone expected him to be the same, and he just went along with it.

He broke girls' hearts and acted like he didn't care. But sometimes he did care because he had his heart broken to, and he knew how bad it felt. But other times he really didn't care, he's a guy and he just wanted to get laid. Percy was torn between being the sweet boy his mom brought him up to be, and the player that his brother wanted him to be.

"Do you guys go to Goode High School?" The waitress asked as she gave them their food.

"Yeah, I actually sat next to you in English class." Grover said.

"Really, I don't remember." The waitress said.

Nico and Percy snickered at Grover, than turned their attention back at the waitress. "Anyway, I'm just asking because you look familiar." She said to Nico.

"But I don't think I've seen you there. I would remember if I had." She said to Percy.

"No, I don't go there. But I'm going to start at the beginning of the year." Percy said.

"That's great! I'm actually having a party on Friday, and I would love it if you came. Almost everyone from school is going to be there." She said.

"Sure, we would love to come."

"Awesome! I'll write down the address for you and my number, so you can call me whenever you want." She said flirtatiously and gave the paper with her information to Percy.

"Thank you." Percy said. The waitress smiled at him, and happily went back to work. She gave Percy another smile from the counter, and started texting on her phone.

Nico grabbed the piece of paper with the address and phone number from Percy, and read it. "I can't believe you got invited to that party. Only the stuck up jerks at school got invited to that." He said and gave him the paper back.

"Yeah that was Ashley. She is one of the most popular girls at school, and she doesn't even look at us." Grover said.

"So… you guys don't want to go?" Percy asked playing with the piece of paper in his hand.

"We never said that." Grover said and grabbed the paper from him.

"Yeah I wouldn't mind going." Nico said.

"Thalia and Annabeth are going to be there, so it could be fun. At least I know they'll talk to me." Grover said.

"Annabeth is going to be there?" Percy asked starting too really like the idea of going to the party.

"Yeah, she always gets invited to all the parties. She and Ashley are friends, so I'm sure she she's going to be there." Grover replied.

The thought of seeing Annabeth, gave Percy butterflies in his stomach. He really missed her and wanted to see her, but he felt that it would be strange to just show up at her house like old times. And a party would be the perfect place for a reunion. He was determined to not lose her friendship, so he decided to face Annabeth and act like he didn't remember the kiss, and that he is completely over her.

"Guys, we are going to that party." Percy said. They all agreed on going, and started eating their pizza.

Percy and Nico were getting ready at Percy's apartment; he was glad his father ignored his protest and got him the place anyway. He and Nico have been staying there for the past 3 days, and it looked like a pigsty. There were coke cans and candy wrappers all over the expensive coffee table, potato chip crumbs on the leather couches, and the sink was over flowing with dirty dishes. Percy came out of his room and frowned when he saw the mess they had.

"Nico!" He yelled.

"What." Nico came out with a toothbrush in his mouth, and trying to button up his black shirt.

"Look at this place, it's a mess." Percy said.

Nico looked around and made a disgusted face. "It is. You better get started on cleaning." He said.

"What? You're crazy if you think you're not helping."

"But I'm a guest. You can't make a guest clean your apartment." Nico said.

Percy snorted. "Yeah guest my ass, you practically live here. And more than half the mess is yours."

Nico sighed. "Fine, but I am not cleaning up after your dog."

They started cleaning up, and were almost done when they heard the doorbell ring. Percy opened the door and let Grover in.

"How do I look?" He asked Percy.

He was wearing blue jean, a black t-shirt, and black converse. His hair was combed, but it was covered with a hat. Percy looked at him up and down. "You look good." Percy answered.

Grover sighed in relief. "I'm going with Juniper to the party, and I want to at least look descent." He said.

"So are you two dating now?" Percy asked.

"Yeah we are." Grover said dreamily.

Percy gave him a questioning look. "Are you sure you wouldn't rather be single like Nico and I?" He asked.

"No! I love Juniper, and I'm lucky to be her boyfriend." Grover answered.

Percy shook his head. "Whatever, at least I still have Nico to be my wing man."

"You know it." Nico said joining them, and high fiving Percy.

Grover looked at them disapprovingly and rolled his eyes. Percy and Nico ignored him, and went back to cleaning. They finished cleaning quickly with the help of Grover, then left for the Party.

When they arrived at the party it was full; the music was roaring and some kids were playing pool, while others played beer pong in the corner. Percy and Nico grabbed a red cup with beer in it, and stood by the kitchen looking out at the party, while Grover went to find Juniper.

"So did you go to parties a lot?" Nico asked.

"Yeah, my brother and I went to parties every weekend." He answered and took a drink from his cup.

"So… what do we do then?" Nico asked.

"You've never been to a party?"

"Well… Grover and I aren't exactly on top of the social food chain." Nico said.

Percy nodded remembering how it used to be for him when he lived here in New York. "You just have fun and talk to people." Percy said.

"See those girls over there?" Percy asked Nico pointing at two pretty brunettes who were looking at them. Nico nodded.

"Do you think they're pretty?" Percy asked and Nico nodded again.

"Come on, let's go talk to them." Percy said and pulled Nico with him towards the girls.

As soon as the girls saw Percy and Nico walking towards them, they smiled and started whispering to each other, while trying to smoothen out their hair.

Percy was almost by the girls, when he bumped into someone. "Watch it you idiot!" The girl with startling electric blue eyes and raven black hair said angrily to him.

Her eyes widen when she saw him. "Oh my god… Percy!" She said.

"Hello Thalia." He said smiling.

She gave him a hug then punched him in the shoulder. "Hey! What was that for?" He said rubbing his shoulder.

"For bumping into me and not telling me you were here you dimwit." She said.

"Yeah I'm sorry about that." He said sheepishly.

She smiled and looked at him properly. "Wow Percy, I never thought I would say this, but you look good."

Percy smiled and stepped closer to her. "Does Thalia Grace maybe have a crush on me?" He said seductively.

Thalia smiled at him flirtatiously and started running her finger along his chest. "I think I do."

"You do?" He said leaning his face closer to her.

"Of course not you idiot! What the hell is wrong with you trying to flirt with me? And don't get so close to me." She said and pushed him away roughly. She tried to leave but Percy grabbed her arm and pulled her back to him.

"I'm kidding Thalia. I know you don't have a crush on me, I just like messing with you." Percy said.

"Yeah I know." She said smiling at him. "But I'll talk to you guys later, I have to find Annabeth." Thalia said.

Percy felt his heart race at the mention of Annabeth. He knew she was going to be there, and he wanted to see her, but suddenly the thought of seeing her made him nervous. He nodded weakly at Thalia, too nervous to talk, and she disappeared into the crowd of kids to look for Annabeth.

"Flirting with Thalia is not cool." Nico told Percy.

"Come on Nico, you know I just like agitating Thalia. I don't like her that way. I know you do, so I would never seriously flirt with her." Percy reassured Nico.

Nico smiled at Percy gratefully. Thalia never pays him any attention, but that doesn't mean he would like to see his best friend with the girl he likes.

"Now come on, those cute girls are waiting for us." Percy said and turned towards the girls who were still waiting for them.

He was about to walk towards them when he froze. A few feet from Percy talking to her friends, stood Annabeth Chase. And she looked even more beautiful than Percy remembered.

Her now longer honey blond hair flowed down her back and still curled like a princesses, her tan skin was smooth and beautiful, and her big stormy grey eyes were gorgeous and intimidating. She had an amazing athletic built with curves in all the right places, and she was wearing jean shorts and a blue blouse with black convers, she had very little make up on, and she looked beautiful.

Percy stared at her and his hands got sweaty, his heart was beating so fast he that it was going to beat right out of his chest, and he felt his stomach drop. Annabeth hadn't noticed Percy yet, and he was happy for that. He started to slowly back away to make a run for it, when she turned and look right at him.

I hope you guys like the chapter, and i will update as soon as I can. :D